In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

Putting bad guys away.

There's no feeling like it.

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

20 men eventually walked free.

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton.

Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. guests.

Welcome to Aaron Manky's cabinet of curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities. Switching between roles is an essential part of any performer's work, but sometimes the line can blur between where a character ends and the real person begins.

During World War II, for example, Josephine Baker was one of the most famous performers in Europe.

She was a burlesque dancer and an opera diva with a knack for shocking her audiences.

As it turns out though, her star persona was just a cover for her real career.

Espionage.

Josephine was born Frida Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri in

1906.

Early on, she saw dancing and singing as her way out of poverty.

While she was still a teenager, she joined a traveling vaudeville troop

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